Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

slpetion. 1t will strengthen the Immortal,
s ssul. IN the battle of Waterloo, Wellinp.
t ton saw That the Highlanders were falling
pack. lie SAID, what is the matter there2n
ne was told that the band of music Ind
o ord paying, and he called up the pipers
ana ordered them to strike up nm insn;rinp
ar; and no sooner did thew strike the a;r
than the Highlanders were rallied. md
helped to win the day. Oh, We who have
been routed in the conflicts of life. trv hu
.ne force OF music to rally your scattered
battalions. '"'>0Ae"
! am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly a night in which
there are not concerts, where, with the
best musical instruments and the sweet,
est voices, people may find entertainment.
ratronize such entertainments when
!aey are ofered you. Buy season tickets
II you can, for the philharmonic, and
the Handel and Haydn" societies. Feel
that the $1.5O or $3.50 that Won spend for
the purpose of hearing en- artist play or
sing is profitable investment. Let your
Stelnwsy Halls and yeur Academies of
Music roar with the reclamation of appre.
clatlve audiences assembled at the concer' :
or the oritorio.
STILL further: 1 commend as worthy aH
their support the gyennasium. This ms liz
tuition is gaining in favor everv year, e md
lknow of nothing more free from dissi pa-
1aon, or more calculated to recuperate the
physical and mental energies While here
are a good many people who have en-
ployed this institution, there is a vast num-
Der who are ignorant of its excelle ncies.
There are men with cramped ches n and
weak sides, ead respondent spirit who,
through the gymnasium, might be reused
up to exhuberance and exhilaration, of life.
There are many Christian people 9Aspond-
ent from yecr to year who might, through
such an institution, be benefited in their
spiritual relations. There are Christian
people wlFc seem to think that it is good
sign to be poorly; and because Richard
Baxter AID Robert Hall were invalids they
think thet by the same sickness they NAV
come tctthe same grandeur of character. /
want to tell the Christian people of nv
congregation that God will hold YOU re-
sponsible for your invalidism if it is your
fault, and when, through right exercise
and prudence, you might be athletic and
we'll. The effect of the body upon the
soul you acknowledge. Put man of mild
disposition upon the animal diet of which
the Indian partakes, and in little while
his blood will change its chemical pro-
portions. It will become like unto the
blood of the lion or tiger or the bear.
while his disposition will change, and be-
come fierce, cruel, and unrelenting. The
body has powerful effect upon the soul.
There are good people whose ideas of
Heaven ore all shut out with clouds of to.
bacco smoke. There are people who dare
to shatter the physical vase in which God
has put the jewel Of eternity. There are
men with great hearts and intellects in
bodies worn out by their own neglects-
magnificent machinery capable of propell.
ing Great Eastern across the Atlantic,
yet fastened in a rickety North River pro-
peller. Martin Luther was so mighty for
God, first, because he had noble soul,
and secondly, because he had muscular
development which would have enabled
him to thrash any five of his prosecutors,
if it had been Christian SO to do. Physical
development, which merely shows itself in
fabulous lifting. or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites only
our contempt; but We confess to great adj
miration for the man who has great soul
in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle,
and bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow their
physical health to go down beyond repair.
A ship which ought, with all sail set and
every man at his post, to be carrying q
rich cargo for eternity, employing all its
men in stopping up leakages! When you
may through lue gymnasium, "ofk Oil
your spleen and your querulousness and
one-half of your physical and mental all
ments, do not turn your back upon such a
grand medicament.
Still further: l commend to you q large
class of parlor games and recreations.
There is way of making our homes
hundred fold more attractive than they are
now. Those parents cannot expect to keep
their children away from outside dissipa-
tions unless they make the domestic circle
brighter than anything they can find out
side of it. Do not, then sit in your home
surly and unsympathetic, and with q half
condemnatory look, because of the sport
fulness of your children. You were young
once yourself; let your children be young.
Because your eyes are dim and your ankles
are stiff, do not denounce sportfulness in
those upon whose eyes there is the first
luster, and in whose foot there is the
bounding joy of robust health. I thank
God that in our drawing-rooms and in our
parlors there are innumerable games and
sports which have not upon them the
least faint of iniquity. Light up all your
homes with innocent hilarities. Do not
sit down with the rheumatism, wonder
ing how children can go on SO. Rathert
| thank God that their hearts are SO light,
and their laughter is so free, and that
their cheeks are SO rudy, and that their
expectations are SO radiant. The night
will come soon enough, and the heart
break, and the pang, and the desolation-
it will come soon enough for the dear
children. But when the storm actually
clouds the sky, it will be time enough for
you to haul out your reef tackles. Garry,
then, into your homes not only the inno-
cent sports and games which are the in
ventions of our own day, but the games
which come down with the sportfulness
of all the past ages, chess, and charades
and tableaux; and battledore and calls
themes and lawn tents, and all those
amusements which the young people of our
homes know SO we'll how to contrive.
Then there will be the parlor socialities-
groups of people assembled in your homes,
with wit and mimicgy and joviality, filling
the room with Joy from the door to the
maptel, and from the carpet to the ceiling.
oh. is there any exhiluraton like score
of genial souls in onelroem, each one add
! ing a contribution of his own individual
merriment to the aggregation of general
! hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in the
city, then you will find the panorama and
the art gallery and exquisite collections of
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